Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today announced that MediaTek, Inc., a leading semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital media solutions, has adopted Synopsys' IC Compiler for its next-generation, high-performance 65-nanometer (nm) system-on-chip (SoC) designs. IC Compiler was recently used to complete a hierarchical chip design that contained 4.5-million instances running at 700 megahertz (MHz).

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing today announced the release of the TSMC Modeling Interface (TMI) methodology, which has been developed from Synopsys' production-proven protocol for integrating custom device models into HSPICE®, HSIM™ and NanoSim® transistor-level circuit simulators

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today announced its multi-core initiative to deploy advanced parallel, threaded and other optimized compute technologies across its Discovery™ Verification and Galaxy™ Design platforms, and Design for Manufacturing (DFM) solutions.

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today announced the Synopsys Eclypse™ Low Power Solution, the industry's most comprehensive suite of proven system-level, verification, implementation and signoff tools, intellectual property (IP), methodologies and services for low power chip development.

Nikon Corporation, a leading supplier of lithography equipment for microelectronics manufacturing, and Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in semiconductor design and manufacturing software, today announced that Nikon's proprietary optical lithography exposure tool data is available for the latest release of the Synopsys Proteus optical proximity correction (OPC) software.

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in semiconductor design software, today announced the availability of the DesignWare® VPXA3 Virtual Platform for development of smartphones, hand-held and consumer electronics devices that use Marvell PXA3xx XScale technology next-generation application processor.

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a world leader in semiconductor design software, today unveiled a new family of process-aware design-for-manufacturing (PA-DFM) products that analyze variability effects at the custom/analog design stage for 45-nanometer (nm) and smaller designs.